Combined mileage-book indicator and guard



(No Model.)

w. H. KNIGHT. COMBINED MILEAGE BOOK INDICATOR AND GUARD.

No. 447,954. Patented Mar 10, 1891.

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\VILLIAM H. KNIGHT, OF NEWBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED MILEAGE-BOOK INDICATOR AND GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,954, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed January 17 1891. Serial No. 378,172. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. KNIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Mileage-Book Indicator and Guard, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is a device which may be readily inserted in and combined with a mileage-book for these purposes, namely: to indicate upon its face the number of miles between certain places on the road for which the book is issued, to hold certain coupons which have been partially separated (for-instance, by the passenger) from the remaining coupons, so as to be conveniently taken, (as by the conductor,) to allow a partial view of the remaining coupons, and to act as a guard to preserve the shape of the book, the invention consisting in the devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a mileage-book (from which a part of the coupons has been removed) having a device combined therewith illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of said device separated from the book. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the book closed and of said device combined therewith.

The covers a and Z) of the mileage-book are generally quite thin.

At- 0 are shown the stubs of the leaves or coupons which have been removed.

At. A are the remaining leaves or coupons, with the exception of a part of a leaf or five coupons at d.

I cut or form a plate B, preferably of heavy card-board, in such shape that it will have about the same superficial dimensions of a leaf of the book, that there will be two lips e in the same plane with the body of the plate, and also that there will be open spaces f in the plate. An endless band or elastic G extends around each lip e and along the back of the plate. On the face of this plate is to be printed matter giving the distances between certain places, thus being a ready reminder of the number of coupons required. These required couponsas, for instance, those shown at dhaving been separated from the remaining coupons, and the leaf or part of leaf formed of them having been turned up, the plate B is insertedin the book so as to hold said leaf or part of leaf in condition to be readily grasped and torn off without disturbing the remaining leaves or conpons, as illustrated in Fig. 1. When the plate has been thus inserted, it is held on and firmly against the body of the remaining leaves by means of the elastic, which is carried around the same and the rear cover of the book, as shown. If there are remaining coupons, it is necessary that the fact be known when coupons are removed. The openings in the plate provide for this while the plate remains in the book. WVhen most of the coupons have been removed, the thin covers of the book are aptto be crumpled when carried in the pocket or otherwise. The plate in the book, being more rigid than the covers, will operate to keep the book in shape.

I claim as my invention 1. In combination with a plate B, provided with lips e in the same plane with the body of the plate, an endless band or elastic, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with a plate B, provided with lips e in the same plane with the body of the plate and having the openings J, an endless band or elastic, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In combination with a mileage-book, a plate B, provided with lips e in the same plane with the body of the plate and having openingsf, and a band or elastic engaging with said lips to bind said plate in the book, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM H. KNIGHT.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. KNIGHT, J. T. BROWN. 

